Results 1-20 of 40 for "direct provision" speaker:Paul Murphy

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...up to how Ukrainians were treated with basic humanity. Sinn Féin and the Government are saying that we should level down to the level of inhumanity. Sinn Féin's position was for the scrapping of direct provision. It was opposed to direct provision, correctly, because it is an inhumane system. It is a profiteering, privatised system and we should treat people with respect....

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...". Of course, the initial increase it recommended never happened and the €38.80 was not increased in line with the cost of living either. Since 2020, prices have risen by roughly 20%, so families in direct provision, who are already in extreme poverty and hardship, have faced a cut of 20%, or one fifth, in their income in real terms over the past four years. That has forced women...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...decent people would expect refugees to be treated but treating people who are coming from other conflicts, such as in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, in a completely inhumane way, by putting people into direct provision, at best, and putting them onto the streets, where they are vulnerable to being attacked by people whipped up by the far right, at worst.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will significantly increase the direct provision allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9504/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support paying the full basic supplementary welfare allowance to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and giving asylum-seeking children access to child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9508/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (15 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: One of the scandalous aspects of the direct provision system is how it has often left direct provision residents and asylum seekers at the mercy of management and those in management abusing their power against them. What measures are in place to stop this happening with regard to Ukrainian refugees who are staying in places that did not previously have refugees, for example, hotels? I...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to recent media reports that Government plans to end direct provision by 2024 are to be watered down and that persons in direct provision may be charged rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56940/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, said yesterday that people granted refugee status who are still living in direct provision accommodation should have to pay rent. I am sure the Taoiseach has visited direct provision centres and I am sure he will agree that we are not talking about luxury penthouse suites, detached houses, nice apartments or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (12 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 658. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by asylum seekers in direct provision who are without PPS numbers (details supplied); if he will make the treatment of those who are seeking protection in Ireland a priority; if he will address the issue of those without PPS numbers; his plans to abolish...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (26 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...second major point is the real concern that what is presented as an interim measure becomes permanent. We know of circumstances like that too often in this State. Many things still with us today - direct provision is perhaps one of the worst examples - were interim measures. There is also concern about the numbers included in the plan. It states there will be five schools with 24...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...? The problem is not just the language but the substance. Parents are rightly fearful this so-called interim measure will become permanent like so many other things in this State, for example, direct provision. They fear this is segregated education, without the opportunities for integration with other students, and are rightly concerned the Government is avoiding doing what it needs to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reconsider the decision to award a company (details supplied) the contract to provide meals to Ukrainian refugees in direct provision centres; and if he will revoke the current contract for the company for direct provision centres given the reports of below standard food being provided by the company. [22803/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State is saying Ukrainian refugees who come here will not have to go into direct provision. They will be given hubs, PPS numbers and education assistance. These are all the things a refugee needs. It is great. It is brilliant. It is what we need for Ukrainian refugees. At the same time, the Government will continue to say people who come from Syria, Libya or wherever...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...in issuing temporary residence cards for international protection. Applicants are unable to get PPS numbers. They are unable to access schools and medical cards. This is without even speaking about direct provision. How is this moral? How can the Government stand over it? Surely this needs to be the end of the old system whereby we now treat all refugees in a decent and humane way.

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of Melilla, where a couple of thousand desperate refugees made it over the guard wire only to be mercilessly beaten by the Spanish police. Let us look at the Irish State's racist policies of direct provision, DP, and how people are treated in what are basically open prisons. There is a relationship between the two and it is utterly hypocritical not to see this. Turning to the two...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The inhumane system of direct provision sees companies like Aramark make millions in profits, running what are essentially open prisons for asylum seekers. This is fitting, perhaps, because Aramark also makes money by running for-profit prisons in the US. They have treated those who are in direct provision here appallingly over the years, by serving up terrible food, by intimidating those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Direct Provision System (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been consulted on the role his Department can play in ending direct provision. [28325/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: .... It took a hunger strike for a welcome intervention to happen but it should not have. We need reassurance that nobody else will be placed in these situations as well as a wider reassurance that direct provision will be ended.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Anyone who has heard about what is happening in the Skellig Star is utterly horrified. It was so bad that it drove people to engage in a hunger strike. Coronavirus spread like wildfire through this direct provision centre. As I understand it, it has still not yet been inspected. Food and water were rationed. At one stage, people were limited to 1 l of water per day. A letter I received...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will arrange for the transfer of residents of a direct provision centre (details supplied) to different, safe and supportive accommodation in view of letters from residents detailing issues in relation to bullying and inadequate and unsafe food being provided. [18928/20]